JUDGMENT

Prateek Jalan, J. -

The proceedings in the matter have been conducted through video conferencing.

1. The petitioner is pursuing an LL.M. course from University of Delhi [ the University ]. He has filed this writ petition seeking permission to appear in the Intellectual and Industrial Property Laws I (LM-1018) paper in December 2020.

2. At the outset, it is recorded that learned counsel for the parties have no objection to the petition being heard by this bench, although I was a member of the Division Bench which heard the petitioner s appeal against an interim order passed in this petition.

3. The petitioner enrolled for the LL.M. course in 2014. The duration of the course was three years (6 terms). Under the University s rules and regulations, all the papers for the LL.M. course had to be cleared within six years (known as the span period ). The petitioner was thus required to clear all the examinations by December, 2019.

4. The petitioner has passed all the examinations within the said period, except for one paper from the first term, viz. Intellectual and Industrial Property Laws I (LM-1018). He was unable to appear in this paper in the regular examination of December, 2014